San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-12
The MISSES HETHEpINGT0N.
Jonas Everard's Wards, and the Good
Fortune They Brought Him.

her application mad been earnest, her ref
erences unexceptionable, her letters lady
like and polished.
1t was nearly June when she arrived at
the homestead-a tall, lissom woman, dress
ed with severe simplicity that was yet de-
cidedly stylish as well as becoming to her
pale face, with Its full blue eyes and shin
ing brown hair.
The children took to her" Immediately,
and Jonas Everard, delighted, after few
days Of observation, left home for short
sea voyage to Greenland, where he had late
ly heard Of some curious geological forma-
tons which he was anxious to inspect.
Shorthand yet it heightened into months.
1t was almost September when Jonas re-
turned to his home and the tender mercies
of the Misses HetheringtOn. But what a
change had come over the place in his alb
sencel There was not room nit but what
was well aired and lighted, and bore the
stamp of a refined and wOmanly presence.
Everything everywhere was bright, cheer
full, dainty, hOme-like. And Rose and Daisy
had shared In the general improvement
gay and affectionate as ever, they were no
longer enfants terrible in untractable mis-
chievousness and outbursts of stormy pas
sion.
1t occurred to Jonas Everard instantly
that these were Mrs. Latimer's doings, and
almost as instantly that he could not treat
such woman as he had treated Mrs. Will
son. 1t cost him struggle, but before night
he astonished Thomas by informing that
parsonage that the big dinng-rOom must be
put into use, and that he, Jonas Everard,
would no longer eat alone in his study, but
with Mrs. Latimer and the Misses Hether-
ington.
Whether Jonas ever consciously acknOwl-
edged to himself that he was rewarded for
his self-sacriice in this respect Is doubtful,
but he certainly came to actually enjoy meal
times-even to enjoy, most of all, the late
dinners at which Rose and Daisy did not
appear-and to regard Mrs. Latimer as an
extremely sensible and agreeable woman.
As the weeks drifted on he even fell into
. habit Of spending an hour or so with her
of an evening In the little sitting-rOom she
had chosen Just off the dining-room. You
see how things were going.
In early spring letter from Mr.. FELTON,
summoned the Misses Hetherington's guard
ian to New York. He was gone some
weeks, and he had never dreamed how dear
his home was to him until he felt all his
veins thrilling with delight and expectation
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